Building upon the insight that M1 velocity is the permanent component of nominal interest rates - see Benati (2020) - I propose a novel, and straightforward approach to estimating the natural rate of interest, which is conceptually related to Cochrane's (1994a) proposal to estimate the permanent...

This paper explores sponsorship as a career development strategy to enhance the understanding of why women are underrepresented in senior level leadership in US – holding a mere 11.5% of corporate leadership positions1 and falling (DeSilver, 2018), despite the fact they comprise 61% of the...